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Under Assembly Bill 2053, mandatory sexual harassment training
and education for supervisory employees must now include prevention
of "abusive conduct," defined as "conduct with
malice that a reasonable person would find hostile, offensive, and
unrelated to an employer's legitimate business interests."
Abusive conduct may include "repeated infliction of verbal
abuse, such as the use of derogatory remarks, insults, and
epithets, verbal or physical conduct that a reasonable person would
find threatening, intimidating, or humiliating, or the gratuitous
sabotage or undermining of a person's work performance."
The law specifies that a single act will not constitute abusive
conduct unless it is "especially severe and
egregious."
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